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1. Names are always given capital letters when they are:

proper nouns	James Smith
particular places	Europe, East Anglia
days of the week	Wednesday, Friday
months of the year	June, November
public festivals	Easter, Christmas
organisations	British Broadcasting Corporation
institutions	House of Commons
titles	Archbishop of Canterbury

2. Capital letters are not necessary when a noun is being used in its general rather than its particular sense:

Manchester University / a university education
the King of France / kings and queens of Spain

3. Names which are formed from adjectival use of nouns do not take capital letters:

french doors indian ink roman numerals

4. The plurals of most names are formed by the addition of s

the Andersons the Joyces the Frys

5. Where the name ends in s, ch, or sh the plural is
formed by adding es:

the Rosses the Marshes the Finches

6. The following example, taken from The Guardian of 15 October 1991, combines the names of the Prime Minister, two political parties, an institution, and an organisation:

The Tories yesterday raised the stakes in the continuing battle over the credibility of John Major’s National Health Service assurances when they accused Labour of twisting statistics and the English language to sustain its claim that Mr Major is engineering a "creeping privatisation" of the service.

7. Capital letters are also used for the names of:

public thoroughfares	Bois de Boulogne
civic holidays	Christmas Day
geographical names	Straight of Gibraltar
important events	World War II
trade names	Xerox, Jaguar, Kleenex

8. Where an English form of a foreign place-name exists, it should be used:

Dunkirk Moscow Munich Naples Venice

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